Life, 1906-03-29 · page 2 of 24
Life — March 29, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertisements** (Crystal Domino Sugar and Buffalo Lithia Water) interspersed with three short satirical fiction pieces. The cartoons/stories have no identifiable political figures. Instead, they're humorous anecdotes about ordinary people: 1. **"The Exception to the Rule"** - A man's watch-pulling trick impresses a stranger wearing a gold chain, establishing a con. 2. **"Pity the Poor Woman"** - A domestic dispute over grocery shopping. 3. **"He was in bed..."** - A man too ill to drink whiskey properly. These are gentle, domestic humor pieces typical of early Life magazine's satirical commentary on middle-class life rather than political cartoons. The humor relies on relatable everyday situations and character types rather than current events.
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HIGHEST GRADE IN THE WORLD. Triumph in Sugar IMAGINATION COULD NOT CONCEIVE OF A HANDIER AND PRETTIER FORM THAN IS PRESENTED IN “CRYSTAL DOMINO SUGAR NEITHER COULD THE MOST PARTICULAR PEOPLE ASK FOR MORE PERFECT PURITY OR ECONOMICAL PEOPLE FOR LESS WASTE BEST SUGAR FOR TEA AND COFFEE. | _ex@ By grocers everywher “Especially the BUFFALO LITHIA ATER vicina” For Bright’s Disease, Albuminuria, Renal Cal- culi, Gout, Rheumatism and All Diseases Dependent Upon a Uric Acid Diathesis. Samuel O. L, Potter, A. M.,M. D., M. R. C. P., London, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine ani al Medicine in the College Phy- sicians and Surgeons of San Francisco, Cal., iu his Hand-Book of Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Th capeutics, in the citation of remediesunder the head of +Chronic right’s Disease,” says: ‘*Min- of Virginia, eral waters, especially the BUFFALO LITHIA WATER has many advocates.”” Also, under 66 is highly rec- ‘Albuminuria,’ hesays: |» BUEFALO LITHIA WATER ominenied.” George Halsted Boyland, A. M., M. D., of Paris, Doctor of Medicine, of the Faculty of Paris, ix the New York Medical’ fournal, August 22, 1896, says : ‘There is no remedy as absolutely specific in all forms of Albuminuria and Bright’s Disease, whether Spring No. 2. acute or elircnic. a, BUEFALO LITHIA WATER , sceomponicavy a milk diet. In all cases of pregnancy, where albumin is found in the urineas late as the last week before confinement, if this water and a milk diet are prescribed, the albumin disappears rapidly from the urine and the patient has a positive guar- antee against puerperal convulsions.” Ab Griswold Comstock, A. M., M. D., o/ St. Louis, M/o., says: eb often pre- in Gouty and Rheumatic condi- scribed BUFFALO LITHIA WATER tionsani in Renal Calcuti, ac. companied by Renal Colic, and always with the most satisfactory results. In Renal Calculi, where there is an excess of Uric Acid, it is especially efficacious.” Medical testimony which defies all imputation or question mailed to any address. is for sale by druggists BUEFALO LITHIA WATER tia grocers gencrall PROPRIETOR BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINCS cl | The Exception to the Rule. ONES was a regular subscriber to the S ler, and one week chanced to read the inter- esting statement that anyone possessing a watch, and seeing another drawn out of the pocket. would immediately follow the example. In (fact, it stated that pulling out one’s watch was quite as infectious as yawning or the measles. | Traveling one morning from Putney in the company of Tompkins, he noticed, seated op- posite, a gentleman who sported a massive gold chain. “Tompkins,” he whispered, “a dollar I 1 that chap—without speaking to him, min look at his watch.” “Don Jones succeeded in attracting the attention of the possessor of the chain; then he de! ately drew forth his watch and looked at it The stranger smiled, fidgeted, his hand uncon sciously moved towards the chain, th ud- denly drawing himsclf up he stared out of the window. “Strang! He did so, several times, without the least suceess, At the end of the journey Tompkins his dollar, and Jones went off to the office » ! thought Jones; “must try again.” ing: “Strange, very strange!” That very same evening Jones was tra Putney way alone, when the str: morning entered the carriage. conversation, and just. bi destination Jones mentioned his unlucky bet “And now tell me,” said he to the stranger, “how ever you managed to withstand the temp tation of drawing out your watch 2” “Well, the—er—fact is,” he replied, the end of the month, and I was—er—hard up; the watch is—well, yes, and [ had th hain sewn on inside the pocket, don't you know Snafiler has lost one of its subseribers— Pity the Poor Woman. | |" GSacious: John, S| “you ngey, exclaimed — Mrs. haven't bro: any one home to dinner Sure!” replied Slangey. tb for them? “Why, no, You told me this morning you'd bring home a couple of lobsters for dinner and—" “Well, that's them in the parlor.”—Philade!- phia Press. “Haven't you got I 1 2 was in bed, and told his man to mix | him some whiskey and hot water. “Here's your grog, sir, but I’m afraid it’s not warm enough. “How do you know? Have you tasted it?” “IT wouldn't take such a liberty, sir, I only just dipped my finger in the glass.”"—Sporting Times. Ir is conceded that YOUNGER’S SCOTCH ALF is | most nourishing and refreshing.—Adr. comicbooks.com